A new one. The 18 I got. The rest of it? C. ____? [ATTACH]
Too long, I think, for wear on shoe, so dress clip, which did sometimes come in pairs, as in 'duette' brooches. Costume not really my field, but...
A runcible spoon! @kyratango is a good person to ask about this sort of thing. She or another of our jewellery people can recommend the right...
Agree on dress clip, although, if size is appropriate, could be one of a pair of shoe clips.
That would be fun. (For those who took German in high school, 'mouche' is French for 'fly', the insect.) However, I can find enough ups & downs...
I'm not seeing any verdigris on my monitor, just darkened places totally consistent with silver. Everything about it looks consistent with many...
@Jivvy Let's throw it out for anyone who cares to opine. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The first one is not by the same hand as the others, but is it the...
Fortunately, it's a renewable resource. :)
OP's differs from the several others among the picclick listings in not having a single pot-handle type grip. I do think they are handles, not...
Before we get overly exercised about this, maybe it would be good to have a better idea of whether it really is ivory. I can't tell from photo....
Intrastate sales. All interstate sales & export are banned.
I have seen them used exactly this way to hold glass beads being sold by the strand in a bead shop.
As long as it doesn't self-immmolate!
The mechanism, in its primitive way, reminds me of the ice cream scoops with the lever you depress to have a blade swivel around & scrape the ice...
@Jivvy [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
My guess was that the horseman is a message rider & the motto just relates to the arrival of a message. The overall shape is consistent with late...
What a curious piece this is. The subject matter & way the color layers of the shell have been used to put the white as the background are very...
Hindsight is always 20/20. You could have had Accanito put the year of making under his name. Bet you got lots of oohs & ahhs when you wore it...
What does Emma think of it? Did you know they were going to make her in roses bedight? Accanito made good use of the natural undulation of the...
Is the intaglio on the front surface or is it reverse carved/intaglio? Does appear to have some age, but not antique yet, I suspect. Yes,...
Separate names with a comma.
